September 24, 2021
Home to the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC)
and Northwestern Primary Care Practice-Based Research Program (NP3) 
Current resources and services focus primarily on research:

● Partnership brokering & development

● Workshops, seminars & team training
Funding opportunities

● Consultations, proposal review & support

● Patient, Clinician & Stakeholder Engagement

To learn more, please visit our website
● What It’s Like to Be Black and Disabled in America - featuring ARCC SC member Dr. Angel Miles


● Third Coast CFAR Pilot Awards: Applications due Oct 25
CCH faculty Dr. Marquita Lewis-Thames recently received a K01 award titled "Improving adherence to post-treatment follow-up care for rural lung cancer survivors through a community-clinical survivorship care team model". This award is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and will continue Dr. Lewis-Thames’ important research focus on rural health and lung cancer survivorship.

This project aims to embed a Community Health Worker in a clinical survivorship care team to help rural lung cancer survivors improve their timely follow-up care. Follow-up care often consists of doctor’s visits to monitor recurring cancers after a patient have finished their treatment like chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation, and to monitor side-effects due to treatments. For many rural patients, they must get their follow-up care in from specialist in a city, this can come with transportation and financial burdens. A Community Health Worker is someone from a survivor's rural community who can help the survivor identify health resources they need to overcome barriers to care and help the survivor follow a plan to connect to the resources. The project will test the feasibility, acceptability, and implementation of the CHW-clinical survivorship care model.

Dr. Lewis-Thames’ research is an exciting area of focus that is bringing new ideas and funding to Feinberg, and importantly, helps CCH develop partnerships in rural communities.

If you are interested in joining Marquita’s research team please check out her opening for a Research Assistant! You can find the job opening here.
September 2021 ShARPs Update: Two separate sessions conducted (One in English, another in Spanish)

Promoting COVID-19 vaccination among at-risk adults: A Community,Academic & Health Center Partnership

Northwestern Academic Team: Stacy Bailey, Andrea Zuleta, Allison Pack
Community Partner: Christian Community Health Center (Mia Cross)
Community co-facilitator: Tatiana Bustos
 
ShARP Focus:  Stakeholders provided feedback and input on ways to improve a COVID-19 vaccination education strategy for Black and Latino adults living in South Chicago neighborhoods.

Zoom Panel Participants: South Chicago residents and Community Based Organization (CBO) representatives
 
Spanish Panel Discussion Themes:
  • Theme 1: Encouragement to be vaccinated is influenced by overall health, fear of getting sick, vaccine accessibility, policy level restrictions, and proximity to disease.

  • Theme 2: Information on COVID-19 that is accurate, easy to grasp & concise is needed
  • Stakeholders shared specific strategies and creative ideas

  • Theme 3: The context in which people receive Information (i.e. flyers/text messages) on COVID-19 vaccinations requires adaptations (cultural/linguistic, etc.)
  • It is important to acknowledge the historical context of vaccinations, specifically in underserved/vulnerable communities
 
For more information check out the links below…
Click here to request a ShARP ...............................................................
Click here to participate on a ShARP .....................................................
Click here if you are interested in co-facilitating a ShARP .....................
We are looking for people involved with experience coordinating clinical research (e.g., clinical research coordinators, Clinical Research Project Manager, Clinical Research Associate, Clinical Research Nurse) and experience with community-engaged research.

If you have ever partnered with community members to conduct study activities (e.g., recruiting, study planning, disseminating findings), we would like to hear about your experience and potentially include it in developing a Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) online training course. Specifically, we are interested in doing audio/video recordings with clinical research coordinators who have community engaged research experience. The CRC training course is an intensive training program designed to meet the needs of coordinators who have less than one year of experience or who have never received formal training. The NU Center for Education and Career Development is developing an updated online CRC training course. This new course will highlight the importance of engaging community stakeholders in research activities.

The edited video recording will be about 2-5 minutes. We can record you via zoom or in-person in a studio at Rubloff. If interested please email Dr. Marquita W. Lewis-Thames, marquita.lewis-thames@northwestern.edu to participate.
The Center for Community Health is supported, in part, by the
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute,
 Grant Number UL1TR001422 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award and
the Institute of Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM).
Center for Community Health
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/cch/
cch@northwestern.edu